Recent content by 1sttimebrewer

So cal Firefighter/Paramedic

Hey all, have done about 5 brews all but the last were dry yeast packets, and the last was a liquid yeast from a pack I broke to activate it with nutrients. Ive heard yeast can greatly effect your beer and improve the taste greatly.What are some good threads on here to learn about yeast, what to...

just ordered my ingredients to try and make this one...lookin forward to it

thx for the advice Gin Kings!

Hey all, just made a cider on 12/1 with 5 gallons of apple cider(pasteurized) and 1 cup brown sugar, then used champane yeast and had great airlock activity for 3 days. Had a little too much to drink the day of and didn't get a starting gravity(idiot ,I know). Anyway, Took a gravity reading...

Sure, I mixed 3/4 cup corn sugar with hot water and poured it into my fill bucket...then siphoned beer into the bucket while slowly swirling the bucket until all 5 gallons were in

Yea so far...I will try another tonight to see if it is consistent or not

Cool thx for the advice

Hey all, so I bottled my red ale on 10/11/11(my 1st homebrew) and tried it two weeks later. everything tasted great with good carbonation. So...I put the rest in the frig for use on thanksgiving. have had a few since and all taste fine until today when i poured one the carbonation definetly was...

Makes sense! Thx for the insight

Guess I won't! :)

Got it! The test jar was a tube of beer I pulled off the fermenter initially to get readings from as I went along so I dint have to open the fermented(got this from one of the instructions I read) but goin right from the fermenter is more accurate so I'll try that...thx

Definetly did taste the sample and it tastes great... Like flat beerwhich makes me think it's good to go but I always here ferment for 4 weeks or so

Well that's the thing I don't know if I'm using the terminology correctly. I had a test jar with the beer and have taken hydrometer reading 2 days in a row with same gravity reading. I know I won't see any activity in the airlock so my guess is maybe I need to just wait it out for the 4 weeks...

Hey all... Have a porter in the primary for 2.5 weeks now and haven't seen any activity for quite sometime..I know the initial fermentation is 24-48 hours after u pitch the yeast. My ? Is how do you know if your fermentation has slowed and is there a way to make "help" it out at all if it is...